Carpet-beating machine



J. HAD

zfaagukli'w ahlocmq CARPET BBATING MACHINE Filed Aug. 14

Sept. 30 1924.

Patented Sept. 30, 1924.

UNITED STATES JOSEPH HAD, F DU-QUESNE, PENNSYLVANIA.

CARPET-HEATING MACHINE.

Application filed August 14, 1922. Serial No. 581,707.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH HAD, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Duquesne, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Carpet-Beating liiachines of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in carpet beating machines and has particular reference to a wheel supported machine frame carrying resiliently mounted hinged beater arms that are consecutively operated for contacting a I? side face of a carpet supported upon a line or otherwise adjacent the machine.

The invention further provides in a carpet beater of the type above set forth the provision of a single manually operable shaft carrying devices cooperating with the beater arms for operating the same.

With the above general objects in view and others that will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists of the novel form, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described, shown in the accompanying drawing and claimed.

In the drawing, wherein like reference characters designate corresponding parts throughout the several views,

Figure 1 is a side elevational view of a carget'beating machine constructed in accor ance with the present invention, showing the wheel supported frame, the beater arms and single rotatable shaft for operatingrthe beater arms.

igure 2 is an end elevational view of the machine showing the longitudinal rail carried by the machine frame for supportin the hinged member of the beater arms an the trip lever and pin wheel for operating the beater arm,

Figures 3 and 4 show front elevational and side elevational views of the upper section of the hinge for the beater arm with the rearwardly directed trip lever carried thereby,

Figures 5 and 6 show front elevational and side elevational views of the lower section of the beater arm hinge,

Figure 7 is a side elevational view of the coil spring associated with the hinge pintle for the hinge member,

Figure 8 is a detail sectional View of a portion of the operating shaft and pin wheel carried thereby for operating the beater arm,

Figure 9 is a front elevational view of'the connected hinge member's.

Referring more in detail to the accompanying drawing, there is illustrated a carpet beating machine embodying a frame structure composed of inverted substantially V-shaped end bars 1, integrally connected at their upper ends as at 2 and braced at their lower ends by cross bars 3, shown more clearly in Fig. 2. Longitudinally extending crossed brace bars 4 connect the bars 1 at each side of the machine frame as shown in Fig. 1, While the lower ends of the bars 1 are supported on ground wheels 5.

A longitudinally extending flange bar or rail '6 is suitably secured to the upper end or head 2 of the end frames and constitutes a support for the beater arms. Each beater arm, being in the form of a wireframc 7, is carried by a hinge member that is supported on the longitudinal rail 6, the hinge member being formed of sections 8 and 9 shown in detail in Figs. 3 to 7. The upper hinged section 8 has the beater arm 7 secured thereto as at 10 and carries a rearwardly directed tongue or trip lever 11 braced by the angle member 12 as shown in Figs. 3 and 4. The lower hinge member 9 is provided with an angle bracket 13 secured thereto by rivets passing through the openings 14, the upper leg 13 of the angle bracket 13 being secured to the upper face of the flange rail. 6 as shown in Fig. 2. The hinged sections 8 and 9 carry apertured cooperating hinge ears or lugs 8* and 9 respectively through which a pintle extends, a coil spring 15 enclosing the pintle and having the ends 15 thereof engaging the opposite hinged sections 8 and 9. To maintain. alined arrangement of the hinge sections 8 and 9 as shown in Fig. 2, each hinge section carries angle lugs 16 that engage each other as illustrated in Fig. 2.

The operatin means for the beater" arms includes a longitudinally extending shaft 17 journaled as at 18 to the upper ends of the end frame 1, and spaced pin wheels are secured to said shaft 17, each associated with a beater arm 7. Each pin wheel embodies a pair of spaced disks 19 secured to the shaft 17 by flanged collars 20, each pair of disks 20 car rying an intermediate single pin 21 adjacent the peripheries thereof for engagement with the trip lever 11 carried by each hinged sec tion 8, the pin wheels beings?) disposed on the shaft 17 as to cause sequential operation of the beater arms 7.

From the above detail description of the device, it is believed that the construction and operation thereof will at once be'apparent, it being noted that the machine frame may be readily shifted by the wheel mounting 5 therefor and moved into proximity of a carpet or similar fabric suitably supported upon a line wire or otherwise, and if desired the lower edge of the carpet or fabric may be anchored to the lower longitudinally extending foot rail 22 shown more clearly in Fig. 2. The end of the shaft 17 is provided with a crank handle 23 and upon r0- tation of said shaft, the pins 21 carried by the wheels are successively moved into engagement with the trip levers 11 carried by the upper hinged sections 8 to move said hinge sections carrying the beater arms 7 against the tension of the springs 15 to displace the same from engagement with the carpet to the dotted line position shown in Fig. 2, continued rotation of the shaft and pin Wheel permitting the trip levers 11 to escape the pins 21 and be forcibly brought into contact with the carpet by the springs 15 returning the hinge sections 8 and 9 to their normally alined positions as shown in Fig. 2. The pin wheels may be mounted upon the shaft 17 to cause the beater arms 7 to strike the carpet being cleaned at the same time, or in any combination of numbers desired, it being preferable, however, to operate the heaters in sequence toeffect a better beating and cleaning of a carpet.

While there is herein shown and described the preferred embodiment of the present invention, it is nevertheless to be understood that minor changes may be made therein Without departing from the spirit and scope thereof as claimed.

What I claim is 1. In a carpet beating machine, a machine frame, a longitudinal shaft journaled at the upper end thereof, beater arms" hingedly supported on said frame, cooperating means carried by the beater arm hinges and said shaft to effect swinging movement of the beater arms, the hinge mounting for the beater arms including hinge sections, a coil spring associated therewith for normally moving the hinge sections in one direction, and cooperating means carried by said hinge sections for normally limiting spring pressed movement thereof to hold the same in alinement.

2. in a carpet beating machine, a machine frame having a horizontal bar at the upper end thereof, a two-part hinge having one section secured to the bar, a heater arm carried by the other movable hinge section, cooperating lugs carried by the hinge sections engaging each other when the hinge sections are alined, a spring associated with the hinge for holding the sections normally alined, a shaft journaled at the upper end of the frame, and cooperating means carried by the movable hinge section and shaft to cause swinging movement of the beater arm. a

In a carpet beating machine, a machine frame having a horizontal bar at the upper end thereof, a two-part hinge having one section secured to the bar, a beater arm carried by the other movable hinge section, c0 operating lugs carried by the hinge sections engaging each other when the hinge sections are alined, a spring associated with the hinge for holding the sections normally alined, a shaft journaled at the upper end of the frame, a trip lever projecting at right angles from the movable hinge section and heater arm and a pin wheel carried by the shaft engaging the trip lever for swinging the beater arm.

In testimony whe eof I affix my signature.

JOSEPH HAD. 

